Can journalists please reach out to Ron Fouchier and @MarionKoopmans to understand what they had heard about an outbreak in Wuhan in the *first week* of December 2019? This seems to be the earliest knowledge of the outbreak outside of China, right?
https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1408839688312561672Fauci's Dishonesty and Co-Conspirators Revealed! - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNxoVFZwMYw2014-10 U.S. Government Gain-of-Function Deliberative Process and Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS, and SARS Viruses2015-11 A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence2020-02 Statement in support of the scientists, public health professionals, and medical professionals of China combatting COVID-192020-03 The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2Anthony Fauci and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Eddie Holmes and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Jeremy Farrar and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Kristian Andersen and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Marion Koopmans and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ron Fouchier and the origin of SARS-CoV-2
I just did. Here is Prof Fouchier's response: 'I am sorry about this confusion. It must have been late December, not early. My mistake. I seem to remember discussing with Prof. Koopmans some unofficial news reports in China about illness associated with a foodmarket in Wuhan....
https://twitter.com/ianbirrell/status/1410262970672762883Ron Fouchier on record saying he knew of the Wuhan outbreak in the first week of December (at 1:50) https://youtu.be/5DeUBLeMnjY h/t @Bianca50406170
https://twitter.com/TheSeeker268/status/1405553117844819973This is a thread to collect all early knowledge western scientists had of the outbreak in Wuhan. I want to try to understand any pattern of information spread that can be extracted, if there's something there.
https://twitter.com/alexandrosM/status/1409004213149978625Dates of the earliest cases of Covid-19 infectionGeorge Gao and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ian Lipkin and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Jeremy Farrar and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Peter Daszak and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Robert Redfield and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Ron Fouchier and the origin of SARS-CoV-2Scientists and researchers and the origin of SARS-CoV-2The media and the origin of SARS-CoV-2